Even NY Times critic Roberta Smith, originally a supporter of LA MOCA’s bold move in appointing flamboyant gallerist Jeffrey Deitch as its new Director, admits his tenure has been disappointing.…
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Stephen Vitiello is a sound artist who teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has exhibited around the world and collaborated with artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler, Julie…
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New Bayou: Planners Talk Up Transformation of Houston’s Bipolar Waterway on July 25
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIf you’ve driven along Allen Parkway recently, you’ve seen the piles of dirt. For the next three years, Buffalo Bayou is going to be one massive construction project, and Rice…
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Folk Art Triumphant: Smither Park Extends Orange Show’s Funky Success
by Bill Davenport 0 commentSmither Park, the new folky-art mecca under construction next door to the Orange Show, is making progress. Visionary architectural sculptor Dan Phillips is busily grouting keys, marbles and tile fragments…
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The Olympics are approaching, and my mind has been wandering in eager anticipation. Will David Beckham be shot into space at the opening ceremonies to light a lunar torch symbolizing…
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Kimberly Bush Tomio, director of the Tyler Museum of Art has announced that she will be leaving the museum she has headed for 12 years to take a job in…
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MFAH director Gary Tinterow’s old Metropolitan Museum of Art connections, and the deep pockets of his new institution are paying off for the Prado: yesterday the NY Times announced that…
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Rejoice! SAMA Now Offers Free Admission in Patches on Tuesdays and Sundays
by Bill Davenport 0 commentIf you’ve been itching to see the famed Guernica Tapestry but have been put off by the $8 museum admission, rejoice! Thanks to H-E-B, the San Antonio Museum of Art…
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I’m headed to New York next week for a brief visit wrapped around a wedding. On the top of the list is Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum…
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Wrong Museum Burning: Ruscha’s Exit Leaves No Artists on LA MOCA Board
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsJoining John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger in a rush to the exit, Ed Ruscha, the last artist on LA MOCA’s board, resigned Monday. The troubled museum, pulled out…
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum has bought Seven Days: Breakfast Tacos by San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez, adding ti to their permanent collection. The large format photograph will be included…
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Laura Lark Loves You #2: Quake That Thing; California Uber Artists; Where’s a Man to Go?
by Laura Larkby Laura Lark 4 commentsQuestions? Comments? Ideas? Send them to: [email protected] (or leave your message below) Dear Readers, Welcome back to Laura Lark Loves You! Please excuse the lack of an umlaut in the…
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Meanwhile, in San Antonio: Wolverton and Guy Hundere
by Sarah Fischby Sarah Fisch 2 commentsUnpretentious art-rock and the collective ideas of the dorks: This is San Anto, y'all.
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Art Hungry Grapevine, TX Hopes to Fill New Convention Center with DIY Art Fair August 4
by Bill Davenport 3 commentsArt-Hunger, a new organization formed by Nick C. Kirk, John Worley and Mike Moffatt, is planning monthly indoor art markets for the newly refurbished Grapevine Convention/Visitors Bureau & Museum Complex…
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I really don’t understand the brouhaha over this Museum Tower thing. All I see are opportunities. Perhaps the lawyers on both sides lack vision. Lawyers, arbitrators, city council members. Not…
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Like Houston’s Astrodome, Beijing’s Bird Nest Stadium, repudiated by its creator, dissident artist Ai WeiWei, and costing the government $11 million a year to maintain, is becoming a white elephant.…
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Dallas art writer and collector June Mattingly’s new e-book The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas, is out-available for Nook, Kindle and iPad. Mattingly, a Dallas artworld fixture…
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Independent scholars rejoice-The Getty Research Portal, which launched last month, makes 20,000 documents from the Getty’s collection and eight other libraries available to anyone with an internet connection. The texts,…
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Surprise! Austin’s $236 Million Culture Industry Supports 7,000 Jobs, Says Americans for the Arts
by Bill Davenport 0 commentAccording to a study by arts advocacy group Americans For the Arts, nonprofit arts and culture industry generated $236 million in annual economic activity in Austin in 2010, supporting 7,315…
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If you’ve been paying attention lately, you know Texas has a bit of a water problem. If you’ve been out of the loop, start with the woes in the little…